(Part 2) Best geography & cultures books for children according to redditors

Ok, I have a long list of ideas, but I'll lgo from most to least likely:

http://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Perle-EPSTEIN/dp/0385048742/ref=sr_1_164?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410048281&sr=1-164

http://www.amazon.com/Monster-Magic-Monsters-Sylvia-Tester/dp/089565055X/ref=sr_1_16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410047513&sr=1-16

http://www.amazon.com/Book-Monsters-2-Ruth-Manning-Sanders/dp/0525269517/ref=sr_1_117?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410048149&sr=1-117

http://www.amazon.com/World-Monsters-Carey-Miller/dp/0860201465/ref=sr_1_53?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410047725&sr=1-53

http://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Middle-Ages-William-Wise/dp/0399604723/ref=sr_1_179?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410048304&sr=1-179

we first saw this book at the UWS NYPL and loved it so much that we bought our 8 mo daughter her own copy. no way that she could comprehend having been to some of the places, but we use it to start conversations about where she's been and where she'll go.

hooks has written extensively about how women are portrayed (and portray themselves) in the media. Some of her works include Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies, Black Looks, Ain't I a Woman and even a children's book Happy to be Nappy. I think it's unfair to characterize her work as quibbling about a person's appearance.

The reason she's talking about Ru and Beyonce in this clip is in relation to her larger body of work, in which (to quote wikipedia):

>she argues that the stereotypes that were set during slavery still affect black women today. She argues that slavery allowed white society to stereotype white women as the pure goddess virgin and move black women to the seductive whore stereotype formerly placed on all women. This has justified the devaluation of black femininity and rape of black women which continues to this day. The work which black women have been forced to perform, either in slavery or in a discriminatory workplace, that would be non-gender conforming for white women has been used against black women as a proof of their emasculating behaviour.

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton? It starts in the country, gets neighbors, then a small town and eventually a city grows around it. Eventually the descendants of the original family move it back out to the country and it is happy again.

[Mexico (New True Books: Geography) ]
(http://www.amazon.com/Mexico-New-True-Books-Geography/dp/0531207277/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331619340&sr=1-6&tag=bookforyoudm-20)

Of course. We all know it's a nationality

I have this one: https://www.amazon.com/Walk-London-Salvatore-Rubbino/dp/0763652725 and it's really gorgeous, I think it's part of a series.

Along those lines, could get her some fun notecards/stationary/postcards to write letters on. I had some with horses on it when I was about that age, with matching envelopes, and thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Otherwise maybe something for her new bedroom? A poster, a decorated bulletin board, a fun calendar? Something random like a lava lamp or mini terrarium? Just depends what she's into. Or maybe a book, if there's a book that's particularly special to him that she might enjoy, maybe with a friendship theme.

EDIT: You could also think about a moving survival-guide type book like this or this. Also found these awesome postcards - Enchanted Forest and Where's Waldo!

According to every book I've read This is London.

But truly, London is a pretty magical place even when it's raining and no one will make eye contact with you.

Was it The Imagineering Field Guide to the Magic Kingdom? If so, you can get a copy cheap.

> And yes, taken to a logical conclusion, science should be able to describe everything

The irony of this is that logic is explicitly not science, as science is based on evidence and logic is not. They are wholly separate and incompatible "ways of knowing".

Please do some research into epistemology and the theory of knowledge. This would be a good place to start.

Not according to A Boy Named Avram ;-)

You will get a totally altered cultural landscape regardless.

It just may be altered by a group you don't consider to be part of the culture.

My mother's "white middle class suburban" childhood home is now a "lower middle class black & latino" neighborhood. After grandma passed, they sold it cheap to a nice family so they could have a home, and were happy to help a family. Were they sad to see the neighborhood they knew disappear? Yea. But it's culture, as they knew it, would disappear anyways.

There is basically zero immigration in Japan, and the culture and cities that my friends in their 60's grew up in is totally gone here, so it's gonna disappear anyways. Ceremony and photographs are the only thing they have to remind people. There are no kids barefoot running along behind Chindon as he plays his little tunes and marches to the corner market as an advertiser, you see him only in parades (where my picture is from). There are no Kamishibai entertaining them either - but you can still borrow story card sets at the library to remind middle school students what life was like before smartphones.
Cities are no longer majority farmers, with kids planting rice barefoot in the mud every spring; all my students detest getting a speck of dirt on their hands. Persimmons, once prized for their sweetness, now go unharvested on forgotten trees in abandoned orchards, feeding only the crows. Japan my have a strong mono-culture, but so much of it has changed anyways. Disney has a greater influence on my students than any emperor or Shinto Spirit.

Places where immigration and slowly shifting demographics is common will eventually see a wholesale change of their culture faster than Japan, but it will all change regardless.

Such is the way of things.

The best I can come up with is Triple Trouble in Hollywood by Michael Pellowski. It's a series, actually. I remember twins going to Hollywood to see their cousin, who was a movie star and who happened to look just like the twins because everyone's parents were siblings (two sisters married two brothers). They all had to act in different parts of a commercial, showcasing each of their various talents. This is all suddenly coming back to me.

But I don't remember anything about a smashed toilet or a break-in. Hmmm. Another book in this series, which I've never read, is called Double Trouble Mansion Mystery, so maybe that's it??

Actually, I remember reading that there once was an army of 700 left-handed fighters that basically destroyed anybody that opposed them.

Here's the book. I cannot be sure how accurate the information is, but I certainly don't think right-handed fighters are automatically better.

I remember this one, Houses and Homes, from my childhood (early 90s). It has photographs though. It would be helpful to know what year you were 10, to narrow down the publication dates.

This?

Girl in the Tangerine Scarf. Novel about a muslim growing up in america.

John Dies at the End. Horror fantasy novel with a lot of philisophical aspects. Also, lots of dick jokes. It's written by a guy that went on to write for Cracked.com. It also recently came out as a movie.

Ender's Game. Futuristic scifi about a kid that goes up to space-school to learn how to save the world from an alien invasion. Soon to be a major motion picture.

13 Reasons Why. Novel about the aftermath of a high school suicide. Good if you want lots of feels.

Unicef did some good ones like this. Is it:

Children Just Like Me: A Unique Celebration of Children Around the World

or

A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World